The Roman Catholic Diocese of Talca, (in
Latin
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: ''Dioecesis Talcensis''), is a
suffragan diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
of the
archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Chile) is one of the five Latin Metropolitan sees of the Roman Catholic Church in Chile.
Ecclesiastical province
Its Suffragan sees are:
* Roman Catholic D ...
. Its current bishop, Galo Fernández Villaseca, was appointed on 20 March 2021.
The diocesan
cathedral
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is in the city of
Talca
Talca () is a city and commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region (7th Region of Chile). As of the 2012 census, the city had a population of 201,142.
The city is an importan ...
.
History
The dioceses of Talca,
of Rancagua and
of San Felipe were erected by
Pope Pius XI on 18 October 1925 by means of the
Bulla "''Notabiliter Aucto''".
Diocesan statistics
The diocese lies in the
Maule Region of Chile and covers a territory of 17,000 km². It is comprised by the
province of Curicó and by eight
municipalities
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(''
comunas'') of the
province of Talca
Talca Province ( es, Provincia de Talca) is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital is the city of Talca.
Administration
As a province, Talca is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed b ...
(the parishes of the municipalities of
Empedrado and
Constitución are jurisdictionally attached to the neighboring
diocese of Linares, from an ecclesiastical point of view). The diocese is divided into 45
parish
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es (as of April 2015), grouped in 5 pastoral zones.
Bishops
* Miguel León Prado (
apostolic administrator
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) † (12 June 1913 – 18 October 1925 appointed,
auxiliary bishop of Santiago de Chile)
* Carlos Silva Cotapos † (14 December 1925 – 21 January 1939 resigned)
* Manuel Larraín Errázuriz † (21 January 1939 succeeded – 22 June 1966 died)
* Carlos González Cruchaga (4 January 1967 – 12 December 1996 retired)
* Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca (12 December 1996 appointed – 28 June 2018 retired)
* Galo Fernández Villaseca (20 March 2021 appointed – present)
Coadjutor bishop
*
Manuel Larraín Errazuriz (1938-1939
Auxiliary bishops
*
Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (1958-1960), appointed Bishop of Temuco
*
Enrique Alvear Urrutia
Enrique Alvear Urrutia (31 January 1916 – 29 April 1982) was a Chilean Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of San Felipe from 1965 until 1974 when he was made one of the two auxiliaries for the Santiago de Chile archdiocese. ...
(1963-1965), appointed Bishop of San Felipe
*
Alejandro Jiménez Lafeble (1975-1983), appointed Bishop of Valdivia
*
Pablo Lizama Riquelme (1988-1991), appointed Bishop of Melipilla
*
Alejandro Goić Karmelić
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Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander ( Czech, Polish), Alexandre (French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander ( Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr ( ...
(1991-1994), appointed Bishop of Osorno
Other priest of this diocese who became bishops
*
Miguel León Prado (Vicar General here, 1913-1925), appointed Bishop of Linares
Pastoral zones and Parishes
Pastoral zones
Urban Talca
* El Sagrario
* Corazón de María
* Nuestra Señora de Fátima
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* San Luis
* Santa Ana
* St. Augustine Cathedral
* San Sebastián
* Inmaculada Concepción
* Los Doce Apóstoles
* Santa Teresita
* La Merced
* Espíritu Santo
* Sagrada Familia
* San Alberto Hurtado
Rural Talca
* San José, Colín ( Maule)
* Sagrado Corazón, Maule
* San José, Duao (Maule)
* San Rafael, San Rafael
* San José, Pelarco
* San Clemente, San Clemente
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* Inmaculada Concepción, Pencahue
* Bajos de Lircay, San Clemente
* Santa Amalia, El Sauce (Talca)
* Sagrado Corazón, Gualleco ( Curepto)
Urban Curicó
* La Merced
* San Juan Bautista
* Nuestra Señora del Rosario
* Cristo Resucitado
* Jesús Obrero
* Jesús de Nazareth
* Iglesia San Francisco
* San José
* Santa Fé
Rural Curicó
* San Juan de Dios, Teno
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* Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Romeral
Romeral is a Chilean town and commune in Curicó Province, Maule Region. The commune spans and area of .
Demographics
According to the 2002 census of Population and Housing by the National Statistics Institute, the Romeral commune had 12,707 in ...
* San Pedro, Rauco
* San Bonifacio, Lontué
* Unidad Pastoral, Sarmiento (Curicó)
* Nuestra Señora del Tránsito, Molina
* Sagrada Familia, Sagrada Familia Sagrada is a Spanish word meaning "sacred
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* Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Cordillerilla (Los Niches, Curicó)
* San Pedro y San Pablo, ''Comunidad de Casablanca'' (Lontué)
* Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Cumpeo ( Río Claro)
Coastal Zone
* Inmaculada Concepción, Villa Prat (Sagrada Familia)
* Santísimo Sacramento, Hualañé
Hualañé () is a town and commune of the Curicó Province in Chile's seven region of Maule.
Situated in the Mataquito River valley, its main activities are the agriculture of tomatoes, potatoes, and grapes for wine. The commune spans an area of ...
* Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Curepto
* San Miguel Arcángel, Licantén
Licantén is a town within the Licantén commune, administered by the Municipality of Licantén within the Curicó Province in the Maule Region of Chile. The commune also include the coastal town of Iloca.
Demographics
According to the 2002 cens ...
* Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Vichuquén
Vichuquén is a commune in the Curicó Province of Chile's Maule Region.
History
The Spanish arrived along the Lico rivers in 1585, where settlements of the Mapuche and Inca already existed. In 1865, Vichuquén founded its capital of the villa ...
* San Policarpo, La Huerta de Mataquito (Hualañé)
* Vice-Parish of Llico (Vichuquén)
External links
Website of the diocese (in Spanish)
*www.catholic-hierarchy.org
References
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Roman Catholic dioceses in Chile
Christian organizations established in 1925
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
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